Heard Island: baseline vegetation data for monitoring longterm change. (d) 35mm photos (terrestrial) used for vegetation mapping.

Areas covered are Gilchrist Beach in the northeast, to Spit Bay in the east, to Long Beach in the south, to Cape Gazert in the west, to Atlas Cove and Laurens Peninsula in the northwest. An equivalent set of 35mm photos for the remaining areas along the north coast is included in metadata record HI_VEG_NON_ORTHO_VEGMAP.

Photos are either oblique aerial (taken from helicopter), terrestrial or ship-based. Although they were taken specifically to use for interpretation when finalising the vegetation mapping (HI_VEG_ORTHO_VEGMAP), they can also be useful for fieldwork planning of any sort, as they give an overview of terrain and topography covering most of the coastal and near-coastal areas of the island. Shapefile - photo locations One shapefile shows the approximate location and direction of the camera for each image.